Scammers Are Using QR Codes to Plunder Parking Meter Payments

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Scammers Are Using QR Codes to Plunder Parking Meter Payments
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The scam has hit several major Texas cities already.

Phishing schemes already litter the internet, and now they’re coming for our parking meters, too. San Antonio police were first to

about the scam, which targets people trying to pay for their parking ticket via QR code. Authorities say people have started plastering their own QR codes onto the machines, which direct people to scammy pay-portals when scanned.that anyone who suffered a credit card breach after making a parking meter payment—and suspects they might have fallen prey to one of these scams—to file a police report and notify their bank “immediately.

It’s a pretty clever way to skim a few bucks off car owners, and it turns out San Antonio isn’t the only city being hit here. After San Antonio issued its warning in late December, Austin and Houston began inspecting their own meters. Sure enough, a local Fox News affiliate in the Austin area

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